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4 months

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Free

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Excel Skills for Business Forecasting Specialization
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  • The current state of the world makes business forecasting even more fundamental to the operation of institutions
  • In this specialization students focus on Excel Skills for Business Forecasting in three courses Time Series Models, Regression Models, and Judgmental Forecasting
  • In the first course on Time Series Models, we will be looking at how your business can utilise time series data sets to understand the different components underlying this data, and then apply the relevant model depending on these components to forecast for business' needs
  • It then continues in the second course in this specialisation which looks at Regression Models, building causal models for both time series data as well as cross-sectional data
  • Working with datasets similar to those typically found in a business, you will use quantitative and qualitative forecasting techniques to generate business forecasts
  • Create charts to visualise data and forecasts
  • Calculate model errors and use optimisation techniques to minimise these errors and choose the best model parameters
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Curriculum

Excel Time Series Models for Business Forecasting

Excel Regression Models for Business Forecasting

Judgmental Business Forecasting in Excel

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Learning Experience: Course content was excellent, it was short and precise. Easy to understand. Covered almost every topics.
Faculty: Faculties were from top universities and were explaining things in such a way that we can easily understand their application. Assignment problem were well designed. Assessment was also very good. It was designed in such a manner that we can revise all concepts that we learnt in previous modules
Course Support: It really helped in up-scalling my skills
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